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allow CREATE TABLE LIKE another table and propagate table partition limits

Today, it is possible to create a PBG tablespace and then use CREATE TABLE like another table and the new table is in the new ts. CREATE TABLESPACE ZPOLCL IN DDB01P SEGSIZE 64; CREATE TABLE TPOLCL LIKE DBCCLP1.TPOL IN DDB01P.ZPOLCL; If the source...
1 day ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

ALLOW (SOME) UTILITIES TO OPERATE ON TABLESPACE TABLE NAME

I would like it to be easier for developers or other end-users to more easily use some basic Db2 utilities. For example, RUNSTATS or RECOVER with redirected recover functionality. But any utility that only operates on tablespace today, consider al...
6 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Do not start jobs with less than X cores per host

It is useful for when ptiles or slots do not fulfill your needs. Using an example, we have an MPI code that requests 100 cores. We don't tell LSF how to grab those cores, and sometimes it will go out and span across 12 nodes, taking 19 cores on on...
6 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Under review

RESTORE DOESN'T PRESERVE THE ORIGINAL TABLESPACE LAYOUT LIKE THE SOURCE

We run into a problem with DB2 restore taking more than one day. SAP created 'Special Build 40602' which preserves the original Tablespace layout. See IBM ticket TS003864545 This 'Special Build' was supposed to be integrated with DB2 version 12, n...
7 days ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 1 Under review

Support for CREATE INDEX DEFER YES DEFINE NO would be very usefull for Spaces with a 'high' number of partitions to avoid timeouts on SYSTSTAB.

When using "CREATE INDEX DEFER YES DEFINE NO", "DEFINE NO" is ignored with SQLCODE 20122 and the VSAM Clusters are created anyway. Doing this for a partitioned index on a partitioned table with lots of partitions (400+) the runtime of CREATE INDEX...
8 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

MDM version 11.0.6.12 and 12.0.1 compatibility with OCP version 4.16

Please do the thorough testing for MDM version 11.0.6.12 and 12.0.1 compatibility with OCP version 4.16. This is required within 15 days to be completed as we are upgrading OCP version from 4.14 to 4.16 starting mid Feb 2025. Our MDM application a...
8 days ago in Master Data Management 0 Under review

Enhance the Condition Operators for the Business Entity Selector

Currently the Business Entity Selector (BES) only has the operations for Empty and Not Empty, you can not perform any other types of operations for comparison or field setting when using a BES in a workflow. Please improve the operators that can b...
12 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

Workflows - Enhance the filtering capabilities when using the Associate objects operation

The Associate objects functionality is not easy to use, there are difficulties in doing the filtering for the association, I have problems with string comparison and just making it work in general. It would be nice to improve the usability of this...
12 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

Multiple Language Support for Workflows and Collaboration Areas

Multiple language support for the workflow/collaboration area is essential to our end users. We have users across the globe, many of whom are non-native English speakers. We are planning to increase the adoption rate of the workflow feature across...
13 days ago in Product Master 0 Under review

Enahncement to DB2_DEFER_MEMORY_COMMIT setting

Regarding the use of DB2_DEFER_MEMORY_COMMIT=ON. This env variable will defer memory commitment, asynchronously in the background, for faster completion of ACTIVATE DATABASE. This helps to improve the database activation for large memory systems w...
15 days ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 1 Under review